Sunday, October 18, 2015

Pakistan ranked 4th most dangerous country for aid workers

Pakistan ranks fourth most dangerous country with a total of 93 attacks on aid workers over the last 10 years, according to a report by the World Economic Forum (WEF).
The report titled ‘The 10 most dangerous countries for aid workers’ was released on the basis of data collected between 2004 to 2014.


Afghanistan tops the list with 430 attacks on aid workers while Sudan and Somalia are ranked second and third respectively.
In 2014, 190 major attacks against aid operations occurred, affecting 329 aid workers in 27 countries. This represents
a decrease of roughly 30 per cent from last year’s all-time high. However, numbers of attacks remained higher than in previous years.


The report further stated that in 2014, the five contexts with the greatest number of attacks on aid workers were Afghanistan, Syria, South Sudan, Central African Republic and Pakistan.

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